Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Archimago
paulster wrote: Nice job... as always. I've been at a loss this last few years to understand whether these 'high-end' cable companies offering their special digital cables truly believe that they are somehow better, or whether they know they make no difference but that they have a market

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread ralphpnj
Archimago wrote: Thanks again man. You do have a nice library! Despite the latency time and all, the interface was quite snappy accessing the library with my Android tablet and Squeeze Commander. Hey wait a minute - isn't your android tablet running Squeeze Commander (by the way have you

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread paulster
Archimago wrote: On that note, I published the Intercontinental Test thanks to Mnyb. :-) http://archimago.blogspot.com/2015/02/measurements-intercontinental-internet.html Enjoy... Nice job... as always. I've been at a loss this last few years to understand whether these 'high-end'

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Archimago
ralphpnj wrote: Great work on the Intercontinental Test gentlemen. One quick note - those buffer under-runs you were experiencing during the playback of the 14bit/88.2kHz song can easily be explained by the following quantum mechanics formula (remember quantum mechanics is the place to go to

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Mnyb
I'm cheaper than you :) I can change my opinions completely for no more than 200k$ I'm investing in a new apartment . I'll photograph my hifi rig with all the fancy cables and publish in any hifi fora of your choice . Cable vendors please pm me ... But joking aside a pity that the throughput

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Archimago
Mnyb wrote: Thanks for trying . Pity the link was not fast enough for every test or listening . Now maybe i should pay for an 100mB uplink :) that would make streaming trouble free from where ever i'm at , before Spotify i used to do this when travelling to get music to my hotell .inside

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread ralphpnj
Mnyb wrote: I'm cheaper than you :) I can change my opinions completely for no more than 200k$ I'm investing in a new apartment . I'll photograph my hifi rig with all the fancy cables and publish in any hifi fora of your choice . Cable vendors please pm me ... But joking aside a pity

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Mnyb
Thanks for trying . Pity the link was not fast enough for every test or listening . Now maybe i should pay for an 100mB uplink :) that would make streaming trouble free from where ever i'm at , before Spotify i used to do this when travelling to get music to my hotell .inside Sweden the hotel

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Julf
Brilliant! I feel proud for being part of creating those cables many, many years ago... :) To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people - Paul W Klipsch, 1953

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread ralphpnj
Archimago wrote: Seriously guys. There's no way to truly calculate everything at this point with those equations. You see, until the Grand Unification Theory is completed, no matter what we do, we're clearly going to be missing some detail which will of course be important because our

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] MEASUREMENTS: Ethernet Cable and Audio...

2015-02-21 Thread Archimago
Seriously guys. There's no way to truly calculate everything at this point with those equations. You see, until the Grand Unification Theory is completed, no matter what we do, we're clearly going to be missing some detail which will of course be important because our hearing is analogue and of